Glionna with the Los Angeles Times. Republican Governor Jan Brewer signed legislation into law that bans "most abortions after 20 weeks"; the law also requires state officials to put up a website "with images of fetuses at various states of development for women to view" (Glionna, p
The pro-abortion position presented by the authors is as follows: Premise A: the fetus has no "moral status"; Premise B: it is not morally wrong to destroy something that has no moral status; Conclusion: it is not morally wrong to destroy a fetus. Given these two opposing premises, it then seems logical to zero in on the "accuracy of the premises" (Jones, et al
Those stats were down 59% from 1988 when 43.5 teenage women per 1,000 received abortions (Kelleher, 2012)
Meanwhile professor of philosophy Bertha Alvarez Manninen (Arizona State University) discusses that very law in Nebraska that Danielle Deaver got caught up in. Manninen explains that when the Nebraska lawmakers passed the law, those legislators were actually "decreasing the window for abortion by 5 weeks, into the second trimester" albeit the most common medically accepted window of time for a safe abortion had been 25 weeks (Manninen, 2010, p
Meanwhile professor Nathan Nobis (in the Journal of Medicine and Philosophy) takes issue with a previous article by Francis Beckwith (in this same peer-reviewed journal). Nobis rejects Beckwith's core premise that: "The unborn entity, from the moment of conception, is a full-fledged member of the human community"; in other words, Nobis writes, according to Beckwith's viewpoint "the fetus has basic moral rights, is a person, is a moral subject and is intrinsically valuable, morally" (Nobis, 2011, p
But moreover, both sides of the issue should try to find common ground and should seek ways to reduce the number of abortions. This paper strongly agrees with a peer-reviewed article in the Journal of Religious Health (Stephens, et al
My own investigation into the definition of clinical death, for example, yielded no such clear-cut answers as the ones you provide in an attempt to assert that the fetus should be considered alive at eighteen days (when the heart starts beating) or at the most approximately forty days (when brain wave activity is detectable). Instead, the most comprehensive medical article I could find noted a long-running controversy about the definition of death, and states that it has generally been defined in medical circles as the cessation or irreversible degradation of all vital functions, including brain function, and a philosophical investigation of the topic agreed with this level of controversy (Bernat, 23-24; DeGrazia)
Biblical Arguments Against Abortion I should be forthright and tell you that I do not believe the Bible or any other religious text should be the basis for current laws or practices, nor should any system of morality be imposed on a democratic country or population. While the opposition to religion in government during the founding of this country is not as clear-cut as come would like to insist, it is very much the case that it was deemed inappropriate to require anyone to adhere to a certain text or system of beliefs as a prerequisite for remaining lawful (Levy, 79-93)
These religious groups do not believe it is moral to dispose of fertilized human eggs, even when they are only comprised of a few cells. The question for many people is whether these zygotes are "morally protectable entities, or are they more like other disposable tissues cleaned from the human body?" (Green) It would seem that the moral obligation, then, of religious people who believe that a fertilized human egg cell has the same right to life as an infant child, would be to rescue fertilized egg cells that in danger
There are "spare' embryos created during invitro fertilization procedures." (Richards) Most in vitro fertilization clinics assist women in getting pregnant by taking eight egg cells from the mother, fertilizing all eight, then implanting half of the fertilized cells into the mother
2010). Looking at the historical review of medical and legal views concerning abortion, the Courts found out that the modern prohibitions were not in line with the recent vintage thus lacking historical foundation that would have played a fundamental role of preserving them constitutional review (Edward, L
While there are many other factors and issues, the debate about whether or not abortion should be legal is deeply rooted in differences of belief in two main areas. These differences are when human life begins and where government jurisdiction ends (Cozic and Petrikin 14)
The fetus has its own unique genetic code; therefore, it is a separate human being. A fetus should be considered a human being with rights from the time of conception (Hadley 59)
All of the women experienced physiological difficulties and regretted their decision to have an abortion. Unfortunately, this is the reality of abortion for many women (Reardon 21)
During the third trimester, government can regulate or even prohibit abortions. The only exception to government interference in the third trimester is the protection of life or health of the woman (Tribe 10)
Women are often encouraged by family or friends to get an abortion with little thought for the future effects. These women need to be protected by the government by making abortion illegal (Williams 39)
None, however, support abortion on demand as is the position of the pro-choice groups. (Jelen, 134-142) Conclusion The Christian beliefs about abortion have completed a full circle since the biblical times
Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) also adhered to this view point and considered only the abortion of an 'animated' fetus as murder. (Robinson, para on "Various Beliefs
They believe that women's main purpose in life is to participate in "the miracle of life" and the perception in our society about the incompatibility of successful working women with pregnancy is termed by them as a "fallout of our society's failed value system." (Terwilliger, para on "Abortion
Wade must stand. In fact in this history making case, the Supreme Court of the United States wrote that the ability to choose to have an abortion is a "fundamental right" (Roe v. Wade, 410 U